Sunday, February 27, 2022

True Patriots

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: GLOBAL POLITICS

 

True Patriots

 

While you’re deriding Joe Biden

With your childish chants

And inept comparisons

Remember that it was Biden

Who withdrew from a twenty-year war

That Bush the younger started

And two successors failed to stop

We were the invaders then

And we answered the call

We were the occupiers then

And we took to the streets

Several million strong

 

Now you serve as cheerleaders

For the despicable Russian despot

As he bombs and bulldozes

His democratic neighbor

Now as the missiles fly over Kiev

You wonder which side to take

Or whether to take sides at all

 

Look to the streets of Moscow

Where the people rise in protest

Where they risk their lives for others

For the cause of freedom

For the hope of democracy

 

Look to the people of Ukraine

Who hunker down in resistance

To the foreign invaders

 

This is the face of patriotism

These are the hearts and souls

Of true patriots

 


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